17.9.1. Global Settings¶
Global Settings consists of the following:
Alert Notification: Motadata polls the monitor at a regular interval (generally 5 mins). After polling it alerts you about the health of the monitor. You can choose the behavior of alert here. You have 3 options:
Notify me when monitor’s status turns to clear.
Notify me only specific number of times if monitor severity does not change.
Notify me continuously about the status of monitor if not clear.
Alert Notification¶
Alert Notification Sound: Alert sound notification plays the sound whenever the alerts are triggered. The sound is played to the logged-in users. Four different sounds for each type of alert are available for use.
To use the sound notification, enable the Alert Sound Notification. The available sound notifications are: ‘Beep’ ‘Dingdong’ ‘Unreachable’ and ‘Warning’.
Alert Sound Notification¶
Select the sound type from drop-down in each alert type and click update.
Alert Correlation Engine: Alert Correlation Engine will Enable the Correlation feature to be working overall in the product. If you do not wish to use the feature, disable it. Here, the flag will be ‘Disabled’ by default. Also, audit logs will be logged in for all entries.
Alert Correlation Engine¶
Horizontal CSV Export: Horizontal CSV Export will enable the visualization of report in Horizontal direction when exported. If you do not wish to use the feature, disable it.
Horizontal CSV Export¶
Log Search
Full Text Search: Turn on/off full text search. It is a prerequisite of the Log search (Search > Logs) menu.
View Parsed Logs: Turn on/off the ‘view parsed logs’. When turned on, the logs will show logs from both Clikhouse and Lucene database. When turned off, the logs will show only from Lucene database.
Global Settings¶
Topology Manually link/unlink functionality: (By default - Off) When turned on, people can manually link/unlink the nodes in Topology menu.
Topology Manually Link/Unlink¶
Scheduler Calendar View: (By default - Off) When turned on, users can view the Scheduler in Calendar format.
Scheduler Calendar View¶
Widget: When you turn on this setting, Motadata will store and use values from cookies to show widget data. The cookies are maintained for 10 minutes for metric widgets. For log/flow widgets, cookies are maintained for 2 minutes. When you want Motadata to make fresh call to database every time you visit the dashboard/reports page, turn off the feature. You can also turn on the flag to count the the maintenance time in the Up Time.
Widget¶
Visualization: Set the maximum number of widgets in a single dashboard. Maximum visualization limit in Motadata is 25.
Set Visualization Value¶
Currency: Set the currency in which you want to see all the price/amount/values in Motadata. Note that this currency is only for representation only and we do not do currency conversion. You can choose from available currency. If your currency is not visible here, contact Motadata support.
Set Currency¶
Motadata Logging Level: Choose the logging level for the logs generated in the back-end. By default, warning logs are sufficient for troubleshooting. Other logs are enabled when the network engineer or Motadata expert needs to look into a particular issue.
Info – Contains informational logs
Warn – Contains warning logs
Error – Contains all the error logs
Debug – Operations (Success/Failure)
Trace – Detailed logs
Motadata Logging Level¶
LDAP Authentication: To use the LDAP server, enable the LDAP Authentication. Motadata will fetch data from LDAP at regular intervals. Use LDAP Sync Time as the duration of the interval.
LDAP Authentication settings¶
Local Engine ID: Every server will have its static local Engine ID, which will be helpful while forwarding the traps.
Local Engine ID¶
Login Details: This fields allows to configure the Maximum Login Attempts and Lock duration period after multiple trials of wrong password.
Login details¶
Password Complexity: This section includes various settings for managing password policies.
Password Policies¶
Here, you can enable/disable flags as below:
Password-Username Different: Enable this flag if you desire to keep the username and password different. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Password change required on first login: Enable this flag if you desire to change the password on very first login. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Password Expiry: Enable this flag and mention the number of days after which the password should expire automatically. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Password Uppercase: Enable this flag if you wish to include any Uppercase letters in password as mandatory. Aside, mention the minimum number of uppercase letters required. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Password Lowercase: Enable this flag if you wish to include any Uppercase letters in password as mandatory. Aside, mention the minimum number of Lowercase letters required. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Password with Special Character: Enable this flag if you wish to include any Special Character in your password as mandatory. Aside, mention the minimum number of Special Case letters required. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Password with Number: Enable this flag if you wish to include any Number in your password as mandatory. Aside, mention the minimum number of numeric letters required. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Minimum Password Length: Enable this flag and mention the minimum length of password. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Number of Past Password to maintain: Enable this flag and mention the minimum number of passwords you wish the system to store. If not, keep it disabled. By default:disabled
Motadata Report Export Limit: Set the number of lines limit you wish when the report is exported.
Report Limit¶
Allow Monitor Polling Issue Mail: To get an email when the monitor doesn’t respond to Motadata’s poll request, enable this feature. When Motadata doesn’t get a response from the monitor, it sends an email. If the monitor is still not responding, Motadata will not send further emails. When monitor responds to poll request, Motadata will send you an email again.
You can configure for which monitors Motadata should send an email and who should receive that email. Use the filter conditions and values to select the monitors (or their range). Use the ‘Action’ to select the email addresses.
Configure Monitors and Email in Case of Polling Failure¶
Auto Refresh: Configure the auto-refresh time to refresh the GUI on Home page and Alert Stream page. The default time is 5 minutes (same as polling time).
Set Auto-Refresh Time¶
License Expiry Configuration: Configure the number of days for the trap generation of the License Expiry. For Example, you require the trap to be generated before 5 days of License Expiry, configure ‘5’ days here.
Set License Expiry days¶
Motadata System User and Password: Type the Motadata server User and Password (The password that you use to access the back-end of Motadata) The User can be any created. By default: root here. This password is required to see data in Motadata Health (Motadata Health).
Motadata System Password¶
Motadata System SSH Key and Passphrase: Enter the Client specific SSH Key and Passphrase. This Key needs to be generated in backend from Client’s end.
Motadata System SSH Key and Passphrase¶
Google Map API Key: The Google Map API Key is a key you get from the Google maps. This key is required for communication between Motadata and Google Maps. You need to enter Google Map API key to use Google Maps in the Widgets.
Google Map API Key¶
Firmware Repository Path: You can mention the path of the Repository path to be considered for the scanning and discovery.
Firmware Repository Path¶
White Labeling: You can change the logo of Motadata to white label the product under your organization’s brand. Upload the logo file (up to 1 MB) and save the settings.
White Labeling¶